Merton of the Movies
Author: Harry Leon Wilson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3732661342
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Author: Harry Leon Wilson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2018-04-06
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 3732661342
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Author: Paul Merton
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-01-26
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1409035662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn the surface it may seem slightly surprising that a master of verbal humour should also be a devotee of silent comedy, but Paul Merton is completely passionate about the early days of Hollywood comedy and the comic geniuses who dominated it. His knowledge is awesome - as anyone who watched his BBC 4 series Silent Clowns or attended the events he has staged nationwide will agree - his enthusiasm is infectious, and these qualities are to be found in abundance in his book. Starting with the very earliest pioneering short films, he traces the evolution of silent comedy through the 1900s and considers the works of the genre's greatest exponents - Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and Harold Lloyd - showing not only how each developed in the course of their career but also the extent to which they influenced each other. At the same time, Paul brings a comedian's insight to bear on the art of making people laugh, and explores just how the great comic ideas, routines, gags and pratfalls worked and evolved. His first book for ten years, this is destined to be a classic.
Author: James Finley
Publisher: Ave Maria Press
Published: 2018-02-02
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1594713170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor forty years, James Finley’s Merton's Palace of Nowhere has been the standard text for exploring, reflecting on, and understanding the rich vein of Thomas Merton's thought. Spiritual identity is the quest to know who we are, to find meaning, to overcome that sense of “Is this all there is?” Merton’s message cuts to the heart of this universal quest, and Finley illuminates that message as no one else can. As a young man of eighteen, Finley left home for an unlikely destination: the Abbey of Gethsemani, where Thomas Merton lived as a contemplative. Finley stayed at the monastery for six maturing years and later wrote this Merton’s Palace of Nowhere in order to share a taste of what he had learned on his spiritual journey under the guidance of one of the great religious figures of our time. At the heart of the quest for spiritual identity are Merton's illuminating insights—leading from an awareness of the false and illusory self to a realization of the true self. Dog-eared, tattered, underlined copies of this book are found on the bookshelves of retreat centers, parish libraries, and the homes of spiritual seekers everywhere. This anniversary edition brings a classic to a new generation and includes a new preface by Finley.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher:
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 74
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Howard Griffin
Publisher: Wings Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1609401433
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1969, one year after Thomas Merton's tragic (and suspicious) death, John Howard Griffin was invited to write a biography of America's most famous monk, a monk who strangely had become a best-selling theologian. The result was Follow the Ecstasy: The Hermitage Years of Thomas Merton (1983). Both Merton and Griffin were converts to Catholicism, and they had become fast friends during Griffin's occasional retreats to the Trappist Abbey of Gethsemani where Merton was cloistered. As Robert Bonazzi writes in his Foreword, "With natural humility and intense spirituality, they taught each other by example and silence." Merton and Griffin were both photographers as well as writers. Griffin wrote about Merton's painting and photography in A Hidden Wholeness: The Visual World of Thomas Merton (1970). They also shared a fascination with the French theologian Jacques Maritain, as well as French modernists Pierre Reverdy, George Braque, and Albert Camus. Griffin fell ill before he could finish his biography of Merton, and the mantle of official biographer passed to Michael Mott, author of The Seven Mountains of Thomas Merton, an essential compendium of the monk's life. Yet Follow the Ecstasy gets closer to the man--a portrait made by one who shared not only personal histories and interests with Merton, but an "intuitive perspective of solitude."
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Christian Large Print
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 770
ISBN-13: 9780802724977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne man's search to find his role in the world is revealed in the writer's portrait of his youthful political activism and entry into a Trappist monastery
Author: Vachel Lindsay
Publisher:
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 502
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1925, Vachel Lindsay wrote The Progress and Poetry of the Movies as a sequel to his pioneering Art of the Moving Picture (1915). The present edition of The Progress and Poetry of the Movies, never published in Lindsay's lifetime, contributes to our understanding of the genealogy of contemporary film studies.
Author: Thomas Merton
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 2010-05-25
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1429945079
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThomas Merton (1915-1968) is one of the foremost spiritual thinkers of the twentieth century. Though he lived a mostly solitary existence as a Trappist monk, he had a dynamic impact on world affairs through his writing. An outspoken proponent of the antiwar and civil rights movements, he was both hailed as a prophet and castigated for his social criticism. He was also unique among religious leaders in his embrace of Eastern mysticism, positing it as complementary to the Western sacred tradition. Merton is the author of over forty books of poetry, essays, and religious writing, including Mystics and Zen Masters, and The Seven Story Mountain, for which he is best known. His work continues to be widely read to this day.
Author: Mary Swain
Publisher:
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781891785603
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClear and moving, this compilation reveals previously unpublished discussions on prayer and religious vows between Thomas Merton and the Sisters of Loretto in the early 1960s. Offering insight into Merton's friendship with one of the most influential American religious women of the 20th century, Sr. Mary Luke Tobin--who was one of the 15 official women observers at Vatican II--this history reflects not only Merton's deep understanding of religious life, but also his affection for this particular community of sisters.
Author: Nicole Rafter
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2011-09
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0814776515
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